[hackerspaces] Sex Offenders at a 'Space

[Rob Davy]

The police and a parole officer are VERY different people/roles. Parole
officers are, for the most part, office based paper pushers. They're not
law enforcement per-se. They don't give a crap that you teach lock-picking,
crypto-stuff, etc.

And the parole officer has already looked into the organization if he's
taken the effort to reach out to contact them. Any damage (which is none)
has already been done. Take advantage of him reaching out. At the end of
the day, their job is to try and prevent someone from re-offending -
they'll let you know if you're making that a higher chance of happening (by
letting them in the org) or if they're only letting you know because of a
legal requirement to do so

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Don Ankney <dankney at hackerco.de> wrote:

>  So you really want to start a conversation with the police about a
> Hackerspace? There's so much potential for misunderstanding.
>
> On Feb 16, 2015, at 9:54 PM, Rob Davy <rob at robdavy.com> wrote:
>
>   I would suggest calling the PO and basically saying "off the record,
> knowing what you know about what we do here and who does it here, would you
> let him join our organization?" Stress the off-the-record, person-to-person
> nature of the question. People are often very forth-coming when you ask
> like that
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Arclight <arclight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I guess I should clarify: The dude was a creeper who was found in a
>> hotel room with a random 13 year-old runaway.  The Amber Alert was
>> pretty much the last straw and not surprising to anyone involved.
>>
>> Arclight
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Arclight <arclight at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Brett Dikeman <brett.dikeman at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Uh...that was pretty stupid of your space, given the huge number of
>> false
>> >> alarms on the AMBER alert system.
>> >>
>> >> Hilarious to see this coming from someone using a pseudonym...
>> >
>> > Not really, as it was not a false alarm.
>> >
>> > Arclight
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